Tangier, Morocco.

Tangier (Tamazight: ⵜⴰⵏⵊⴰ) is a city located north of the Kingdom of Morocco on the Mediterranean coast, has a population of 1,065,601 people, according to the census of population and housing in 2014, and thus the sixth largest city in Morocco in terms of population. Tangier is characterized by being the confluence between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean Mediterranean points, on the one hand, and between the European and the African continent on the other. Tangier is the capital. Tangier-Tetouan Al Hoceima, one of the most important cities in Morocco. The city is considered one of the most important centers of commerce and industry in North Africa, it is also an important economic pole to the large headquarters institutions and enterprises, and one of the most important political, economic, cultural and educational centers in Morocco. The history of the city of Tangier is very rich due to it being the center of the confluence of many Mediterranean civilizations. The city has been established to be the capital of Berber and Phoenician port during the fifth century BC. And several successive civilizations have influenced this city began Greeks and the end of the Islamic civilization.

Architectural monuments to Tangier:

Fences:

Extends along the 2200 m, fenced so the five boroughs of the city antique: the Kasbah, dar lbaroud, jnan kbtan, Wade Ohrdan, and ait iddar. City walls were built on several bitter solution, which is very likely that they were built above the city walls ROMANIAN "Tingas." Chronicling the current Portuguese fences period (1471-1661m), but she knew several restoration and reconstruction works and immunization English during the period (1661-1684), then a period Alsla clay Aoyen who added several fortifications in the 18th century, where the group supported the walls of the towers: borj naam, borj amer, borj dar dbagh and borj salam. As they opened the 13 sections including: bab lkasba, bab marshan, bab haha, bab labhar, bab al assa, bab arraha, and bab almarssa.

kasbah Ghaïlan

Located on the right bank of the valley of the throat, on the road leading to the Malabata east of the ancient city. It was built around 1664 AD, and linked its name to Greens Gillan, commander of the Islamic Jihad movement against the British colonialists who occupied the city of Tangier between 1662 and 1684 AD. Castle is available on the defensive arbitrator, is a quadriplegic Surin ribs immunized by two towers more closely spaced and prominent, large urban Ttosthma door.

Syrian mosque

Founded by a group of Syrian families to commemorate the participation of the Moroccan war the Golan.

Museum of Contemporary Art

This newest museum in 1990 and has a dedicated permanent display 276 square meters spread over five halls and lobby of the wing as well as determined to British engineering-style garden. The museum building is one of the unique architectural monuments in Tangier where constructed in 1898 on the British engineering fashioned to respond to the requirements of the Protocol on the grounds that the building was the seat of the British Consul General in Morocco. It was imperative that combines the durability and luster and aesthetic design and engineering, with a display area of about 270 AD at an altitude of 5 meters of wood roof envelope pseudonym of gypsum ceiling ornately tiled from green wood. Includes an important collection of works by the Fine Moroccan museum gives a panorama of contemporary fine movement in Morocco and faddish strides made by starting with the work of the pioneers of the first generation who crossed the road in front of the emergence of Visual Art Moroccan Acts fifties stage shared by two trends: first, represented by the "School of Fine Arts in Tetouan" and the second represents " School of Fine Arts in Casablanca, "then the sixties which announced the birth of a new generation latest break with the remnants of the colonial period phase, the museum also includes forms with an innate tendency for artists of the seventies stage.

Souk Lakbir Square

A large yard stretch between the old city walls and streets of the modern city. Over a large area, including gardens called HCP gardens. Has been the scene since the recovery of Tangier in the seventeenth century is a weekly market meant vendors and buyers from within the city and outside it (examination) area and may have seen the scene change in activity after King Mohammed V's speech on April 194 709 which confirms the support of the independence of Morocco and support for the resistance of Morocco.
Still scene until today witnessing various commercial activities where the spread on the shores of shops selling fruits and spices. And is a market for women in particular. Where most of the vendors are women, known as the market sold souvenirs from the city of Tangier, especially the towel (bandanna) mountain and Chechia, in addition arena overlooking the several historical landmarks of the city of Tangier as a museum and the church of San Vorbis Andrew and Sidi Bou Obeid mosque.

St. Andrew's Church

Saint Andrew's Anglican Church was built in 1894 after a donation of Sultan Hassan I their land for the benefit of the English community living in Tangier. And this church characterized by its proximity to the Arab Islamic elements in their construction. Vberg bells silos built along the lines of the Moroccan mosques. While making the church entrance with wood carved on the Moroccan way and decorate the walls of the church were verses from the Bible written in Kufic Moroccan. The backdrop of the altar decorated with red and brown logo rebels Andalus "no victor but Allah." And thus constitute a unique model of the Church of the juxtaposition of Islamic and Christian cultures. It also shows part of the religious tolerance experienced by the city of Tangier during the past two centuries.

The Caves of Hercules

The Caves of Hercules are natural caves of the Straits of Gibraltar located about ten kilometers from Tangier.
This reference to the divinity of Greek Antiquity is related to the mythology which situates in Morocco the Gardens of the Hesperides. In these gardens, the three daughters of the Titan Atlas kept the trees with golden apples protected by a dragon with a hundred heads. In his eleventh work, Hercules, son of Zeus, killed the dragon and seized the magical fruits that guaranteed immortality. Tired, he would have rested in these caverns.